Wow Dickie Davies was nearly 95! RIP… Saturday was Tiswas then WoSport, thank you Sir DD you added to my Saturday especially “grappling time” I used to love World of Sport from 1979 till it’s end in 85! Then I was 16 & got a Saturday job so we parted amicably.
@@TheBrummybaldy Because he said and I quote (you made my Saturdays great and my grandparents too) which means "he made both of their weekends great". Not hard to work out is it!
did you really sit there all day watching dickie on world of sport all day? I was a teenager and as soon as i saw the start of the programme, i was out all day on the bike with mates. it was on for 6 hours on a Saturday FFS.
Dickie Davies and World of sport every Saturday after Tiswaz was a fixture in our house during the 1970s and 80s, ....great memories, of better times when programming was simpler , but done with a warmth and humour and always entertaining....miss those times , of a happy childhood.....Dickie Davies Rip
RIP Dickie Davies, the consummate professional that always seemed to guide us viewers through the sporting drama of a Saturday afternoon effortlessly, and had fun doing so.
I have good memories of me & my dad.. watching Dickie Davies at weekend's. my dad sat in his chair shouting! go' on' go' on. my dad has just passed away now. I still have GOOD! memories of DAD.😢 R.I.P Dickie😢.
If you are of an age & remember Grandstand & World of Sport, they were just SO different to watching Sky Sports or BT Sport on TV today…. I loved Dickie Davies, he was iconic & so sad to hear of his passing. He will be remembered by us of that age. RIP Dickie….
@@misst.e.a.187 Yeah it was a world away from today. Everything today is about milking it for more money. I used to like watching wrestling on a Saturday afternoon, Kendo Nagasaki v Giant Haystacks & the like. Can you imagine Sky or other sports channels showing that?!? No, me neither…..
If you asked my friends what makes me ,me most would say a love of sport. Not just one sport but almost all of it. I feel so lucky that I grew up in an era when there was so much free to air sport on TV and Dickie was an integral and great part of that. RIP. and thanks for opening the door.
World of Sport. Dickie Davies. Saturday afternoons, dad home from work and the wrestling is on. He falls asleep and we turn it over and he wakes up and says "I`m watching that! Great days. Rip Mr Davies I also grew up with you.
I've worked with a lot of TV presenters over the years and the majority have been arseholes, right up themselves, arrogant and rude. Dickie Davis however was one of the nicest, down to earth and unassuming people I ever worked with, a true gentleman. The likes of Gary Linneker don't come anywhere close to being as good a presenter, or human being that this man was. RIP Dickie. 🙏
Yes he had a very warm & nice presenting style which never changed over the decades , whether fast paced sports like Rallying or the quiet & sedate Snooker tournaments he hosted latterly when WOS was discontinued. He certainly had a great sense of humour as seen when in the mid 70s Eric Morecambe was in the studio in a Christmas Eve round up of that year sports. Fred Dineage & Jim Rosenthal were great deputy hosts when Dickie was on holiday or other assignments.
I worked with Dickie on WOS back in the seventies. He was such a nice man, and very professional. This clip package was part of an in-house Christmas tape. Such tapes were made every year back then, and the BBC and quite a few of the ITV companies made them for a bit of fun.
World of sport was awesome as a kid .It showcased at lot of sports that we in the uk didn't see a lot of .American football .Cliff diving from Acapulco. I think they even did a regular sports in the movies section. Dickie was a brilliant presenter .
Yes indeed and why not too of course? You would have had to change channels from ITV to BBC1 for those I guess too. At the time I guess most tv's had push buttons on them; no remote controls and all that too. I know the one we had at the time was like that. You had to get up from the chair to manually change it. Not like today's sets of course way by far too?
And there were no video recorders with cassette tapes to record on like there were later on too at the time. I think the first recorder we had here was at the end of 1981 or so-am not too sure on that there though too.
And there were only three channels as such then too of course-BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. Channel 4 or S4C in Wales started in November 1982. TV did not really expand until Sky started around 1990 onwards-or before? and showed their own sports channels as they do now then too really of course. Channel 5 started in March 1997 although by then sports were on all the different channels. Football; Rugby; Cricket; Tennis; Racing; Motor Racing Grand Prix; and so on too!
As an American, I never heard of World of Sport until I saw an episode of The Benny Hill Show where he was parodying it and its presenter Dickie Davies. Although I never saw the show except here on RU-vid, I can sense the big role he played in the lives of his audience, so it was a bit of a shock to hear of his passing. RIP to a broadcasting legend.
You gotta remember that, back in the day, we only had THREE tv channels - Saturday revolved around ‘Grandstand’ on BBC1 (hosted by Frank Bough’, World of Sport’ on ITV and ‘fuck knows what would’a been on BBC2’ back then!
I never knew of Dickie Davies until Benny Hill began spoofing him, but watching him now I must say he seemed to be just as amusing and entertaining as Benny was. Love how he kept a straight face as these unusual moments happened. An English legend of TV who just passed, at the young age of 94. Richard "Dickie" Davies: (1928 - 2023)
Fabulous clips. Dickie was an old boy of my school, and he came in to speak to us all in a special assembly, this was round the late 80s early 90s, but deffo the upper school, my goodness he was entertaining and affable, very funny. I did speak to him afterwards as well. I used to watch World of Sport as a tiny kid with my grandfather, no interest in sport but I liked his humour and delivery. Good innings though, but yes sad to hear of his passing, especially with the connection there.
Does take me back to my youth, some funny ones in there with Eric Morecambe, Ken & his broken leg & the weight lifter who kept appearing at different stages of difficulty to the climax of "Oh shit" lol
It was from 1972 at London Weekend Television's South Bank studios ,( before that at LWT's Wembley studios) ; yes teleprompters & telex machines would be going full speed especially just before the Wrestling which on occasions were live! Rumor has it the typist's were replying to fan mail.& Typing scripts for various LWT shows! The office / news room format did change a lot in the late 60s up to around 1976 when it remained the same. Grandstand had a similar set up with 'behind the scenes ' busy office / news desk style during the Frank Bough & David Coleman years.
My parents worked on weekends, so Dickie more or less brought me on Saturday afternoons and introduced me to my love of sport. Absolute class act. RIP GOAT!!
Fond memories sat afternoons with my grandad watching the various sports on offer that week English wrestling boxing Then watching the football scores as my grandad did the pools Great times sadly missed
Is it true that Dickie Davies supported Southampton as none of the obituaries seems to mention it. I would imagine this was from when he worked in the city on the ships and in Southern TV
Remember watching Greyhound Racing and Speedway most Saturday's. Was always trap 5 and the yellow/black hat I'd want to win. Was also first place I saw American Football, the 49'ers/Bengals Superbowl, followed 49'ers ever since.
Sad week indeed…I grew up on world of sport Saturday afternoon….St & Greavsie…obscure sport followed by wrestling (usually big daddy vs giant haystacks)…..then after I listened to football on radio2…back to dickie for the football results at 445…..that was my Saturday afternoons in 1970-80s in the uk… Rip dickie and John motson…..you shaped British sports for me
7:24: The "Air on a G-string" music that comes on when Gerald Ford is stuck in the bunker was a reference to the Hamlet cigar adverts which would show a cigar as a consolation to a moment of adversity and which were still allowed on UK TV in 1981. At the time, a version of the advert involved an unseen golfer failing to get a ball out of a bunker before the music started and smoke rose to the voice over: "Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet. The mild cigar from Benson & Hedges".
